Ron van der Meyden

Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052,
Australia

email: last word of my name, at cse.unsw.edu.au
phone: +61 2 9385 6922
fax: +61 2 9385 5995
Office Location: K17 room 217G,
at grid reference K17 on the UNSW Kensington map.

News

I am sabbatical at Stanford during 2012.

Consequently, I will not be accepting any new research students until 2013. I will consider applications for a start in session 1, 2013 in early August 2012 (prior to the scholarship application deadline on August 31).

Honors

ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2009

Publications

Software

MCK a model checker for the logic of knowledge

Grants

UTS Large Internal Research Grant 1996: Computational Analysis of Knowledge Theory for Distributed Systems Design and Analysis
ARC Large Grant 1997-1999: Knowledge-Based Programming of Distributed Systems: From Specification to Implementation
UTS Internal Research Grant, 1998: Logics of Belief for Cryptographic Protocol Analysis
ARC Large Grant 2000-2002: Proof Theory for Extensions of Temporal Logic (with Mark Reynolds, Murdoch).
ARC Small Grant 2000: Compositional Abstraction for model checking distributed systems designs using the logic of knowledge and time. (with Kai Engelhardt)
ARC Discovery Grant 2001-2003: Model Checking Logics of Knowledge and Belief
ARC Discovery Grant 2004-2007: Refinement of Temporal and Epistemic Specifications in Aysnchronous Systems (with Kai Engelhardt)
ARC Linkage grant 2008-2010: Model Checking Knowledge and Probability in Pursuit-Evasion Scenarios (with Defence R & D Canada)
US Air Force, Asia Office of Research and Development grant 2009/10: Security Protocol Optimization and Verification by Epistemic Model Checking
ARC Discovery Grant 2010-2012, A formal foundation for security architecture (with Kai Engelhardt)
ARC Discovery Grant 2012-2014, Symbolic synthesis of knowledge-based program implementations (with Kaile Su)

Research Centre Involvement

As Chair (2001-2003) of the Research Committee, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, I was a member of the teams (comprising multiple university, government and industry partners) that constructed successful bids for two major research centres:

Smart Internet CRC, which was awarded $22M of Federal funding in 2001, matched by partner cash and kind contributions to make up over $100M over 7 years. I was program leader of the CRC's Smart Personal Assistant research program for the first year of operation of the centre.
National ICT Australia, which was awarded $129M of Federal funding for 2002-2006 (since topped up with $250M for 2006-2011). I held the role of Program Leader of the NICTA Formal Methods program from NICTA's inception in 2002 to taking sabbatical leave July 2006-July 2007. All programs were closed in a NICTA restructure in 2007. Information about the former program's activities is available here and from the following web pages:

I have also played a role in the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre @ UNSW, a research centre in the Law School at UNSW, as external representative on their management committee.

Invited/Keynote Addresses

CLIMA 2010, 11th Int. Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, Lisbon, Aug 2010.
DEON'02, Sixth International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, Imperial College, London, UK, May, 2002
combined 10th international symposium on "Temporal Representation and Reasoning" and 4th International Conference on Temporal Logic (TIME-ICTL-2003), Cairns, Queensland, Australia July 8-10, 2003.
Agentlink/Colognet Symposium on Logic-based Agent Verification, Liverpool, July 2004
Workshop on Games and Knowledge, Liverpool, July 2004
First Indian Conference on Logic and its relationship to other disciplines, Mumbai, India, Jan 8-13, 2005.

Program Committee Memberships & Editorial

Current:

Formal Aspects of Security and Trust, FAST 2011, PC member.
Handbook of deontic logic and normative systems (editor, with Dov Gabbay, John Horty, Leon van der Torre)
Journal of Applied Logic, special issue on DEON'08 (editor, with Leon van der Torre)
Workshop on Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence, MoChArt 2010 (co-chair).
Formal Aspects of Security and Trust, FAST 2010, PC member.
Theoretical Aspects of Knowledge and Rationality, TARK 2011, PC member.

Past PC memberships

Conference and Workshop Organisation

Tutorial Day on Logic of Knowledge, Aug, 1997
Workshop on Logic in Computer Science, Dec, 1998
Dagstuhl Workshop on Logics for Emerging Applications of Databases, July 2000
National ICT Australia, Inaugural Formal Methods Program Workshop, May 29-31, 2003

Education

UNSW Courses

COMP2411 Logic and Logic Programming (Session1, 2000)
Seminar on Cryptographic Approaches to Distributed Systems Security (Session 2, 2000 and 2002)
Logical Foundations of AI (Session 1 2003)
Cryptographic Approaches to Distributed Systems Security (Session 2, 2003)
Algorithmic Verification (Session 1 2004)
COMP3120/3121/9101 Algorithms (Session 2, 2007)
Reasoning about Knowledge , taught as COMP3152/9152 Compararive Concurrency Semantics (Session 1, 2008)
COMP4442 Advanced Computer Security (Summer Session 2009-10).
COMP3441 Security Engineering (Session 1 2010).
COMP4442 Advanced Computer Security (Session 2, 2010).

Summer School Courses

Algorithmic Verification for Epistemic Logic, a course taught at the North American Summer School on Logic Language and Information
Algorithmic Verification, a course taught at the Logic Summer School, ANU, Dec 2003

Research Students, Postdocs

Xiaowei Huang, postdoc
Cheng Luo, PhD student
Umberto Bonollo (Ph.D. student, University of Melbourne, cosupervisor with Liz Sonenberg)

Former Students, Postdocs

Omar I. Al Bataineh, Masters by research
Chenyi Zhang, PhD & Postdoc
Manas Patra, Phd
Peng Gao, Masters by Research
Kai Engelhardt, Postdoc
Kaile Su, Zhongshan University, China, Aug 2001-Aug 2002, Postdoc
Kai Baukus, Jul 2003 - Jul 2004, Postdoc